The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-14
AnAY CASTLE GARDEN
zou WAVE OF IMMIGRATION
O1orIs ON AMERICAS SHORE.

SGa iu Description of Their Re-
ception.
A,vopa who has not seen it forms very
..Ia6n;te idea of Castle Garden. This is
nov il looked to man from the coun-
try: 1921
house at the front end of Manhattan Island.
A group of lowly wooden buildings OF the
color of a dirty linen buster are grouped
ahort the round house A few trees and bushes
.+ruggle for existence around the buildings.
TLo walls of the round house are thick
.,,assas of masonry, crowned by a conical
,roodap roof. through which the light en-
tors and the odors of the place emerge
Docks extend along the water front OF the
Garden. pIacard on wednesday an
bounced that three steamers, tne Foam
frnrn Rotterdam, the Wyoming from Liv-
arnooI and the Polaria from Hamburg, had
orrmved with an aggregate OF 200 Imml-
<.an+S The steamships were at their docks,
and lighters had gone up to bring the I'M
migrants to Castle Garden.
Nine o'clock in the morning is the hour at
,vhicb the great American republic throws
W., It's doors to begin to receive its immi-
oronts On busy day, when 5000 arrive,
tales until late at night to dispose of
suddenly a gong up in the roof of the
Garden changed three times, and the chieT OF
Eo half dozen clerks broke out of the en-
closure in the centre of the room, opened
cries of oates, and closed another series,
inst as herdsmen do in preparing to pen
Aock of sheep, and then called out to an
employee on the DOCKS:
IT ct them conner
Eohter loaded with immigrants from
I,,.1 @l,0l ,Naly A ho
eicnal from the chief clerk they come filing
r mo the round house, bringing with them
& sone of the dueerest baggage and most po-
tan+ tobacco smoke that can be encouD-
tered One woman carried whole tin shop
II in one hand and led by the other solemn
lacking little boy who wore Eastwood shoes
& that snote the floor with a dull thud. Many
If these immigrants were from Holland.
81 One ouaint little Dutch girl Rugged flower
n NOT containing a tulip which dropped its
81 head as if seasick A majority of them
carried their baggage in great bags of coffee
81 sacking. The tourist who doesn't go in for
81 snpearances will find nothing better tor
81 luggage repository; IL can 1e us st' loI
81 inflow at night and at the end OF the jour
81 new Won can make pair of trousers of the
"A satchel In fact, some of the men had
spring trousers made of the same material
as their hand bags.
81 One man carried a battered tin box
S over MS SlOuIleI anu SEVERAL udu
s. curious wooden boxes. An adventurous
Young Dutchman had come over loaded for
bear He gripped a rusty old musket,
al while he kept his weather eye opened for
game Another youth had a fishing rod and
81 pair of long nosed Dutch skates.
When the lighter load of 200 had been
81 driven into the enclosure the gates were
closed Driven is the proper word, for
long experience in handling immigrants has
taught the employees to speak to them in
III curt decided tones
The average immigrant is suspicious of
everyone on arriving here, and especially so
of the man who speaks in a gentle, insin-
81 uating tone of voice. When a person burts
out in the stentorian tones of a canal boat
M captain the immigrant understands that he
3 is an official and Obeys him.
# From the enclosure the immigrants were
81 made to file through a narrow rallied pas
sage where they got hOpelessly entangled
with their baggage. A clerk sat behind the
M railing and entered the name, nativity and
destination of each person in book. The
ease with which he understood and wrote
down the tongue paralyzing names made
81 the reporter envy him.
This was the way his questions and one
immigrants answers sounded to the repor
IS ter:
Clerk-Wie heist
Immigrant-Albert Novak Dies list
tnene frau. Ich babe bier zwei kinder,
81 Clerk-WO ghet!
lmmigrant-Nach Saint Pouel.
81 Clerk-Haben sic gelda
"a lmmigrant-Yaw
H Then the clerk burst out into a loud cry
that sounded something like more towels"
81 but which was Low Dutch for "Move onr'
He gestlculated wildly and the immigrant
moved on through the narrow passage into
another enclosure. The clerk paused now
and then TO joke with an immigrant
How many wives have youN he asked of
one young fellow, who gayly insisted that
one was all he could afford.
What have you got therep asked the
clerk OF young man with a suspicious
LOOKING package under his arm.
uproved to be an accordion.
we allow no man to land here who
plays the accordion" said the clerk; but
the young man grinned, and said in Dutch:
Nv hat are you giving meg'
The number of young men with accor-
dons was perfectly appalling. One poetic
Wohlng Scandinavian youth with eye
glasses and cloak had a roll of manu-
script III his hand which looked sllspiciously
IKE poem. An old lady wore a curious
ace cap that projected out on either side of
Ier mead, like an awning. An old black bon
net sat rakshly on the back of her head
above the lace awning
wen the passengers had all been regis
Nred a Castle Garden clerk with vigorous
voice went among them calling "Franz
Acha! Franz Ticham
A youth wearing little narrow brimmed
MAI decorated with peacocks feather came
running up and answered "Hierr
g. telegram had arrived for young Franz
uoill ms brother i'll Saint Pouel"
Al frequent intervals the clerk with the
WpuSU voice was seized with a desire to meet
Sunahn Schmittelburger, or some other
epeSI OF the garden, whose name he went
soout shouting Justify. Across one side of
.G garden extends the cases of the railway
tI,SeI sellers, but most of the Immigrants
side pA4 N'''oN VA ''4' o'nei
men all had been registered and those
iaSp were going Immediately out of the city
g aq gone back on the docks to look after
S ser baggage and take a lighter for one of
~ ~e railway depots, those who were to re-
si l,n awhile IN the city were left by them
NJ lhen an official threw open a gate
INV. . uWenty or more men with tickets stuck
rn mlelr mats came running in. These were
,n mi. er Tor the immigrant boarding houses
s n' Ille tickets IN their hats were the bust
vos ARCS OF their respective hotels There
sor no struggle between rival runners, but
n o ran. ran up to the immigrant that he had
Vos h oS lor his own, seized his luggage and
h. away with him in iiffy. In twenty
sul hours the